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Selected:Solution InterviewGetting Things DoneDesign ThinkingARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Criterion
Paper illustration for Solution Interview
Product Discovery
Solution Interview
Paper notes move from an inbox to action, project and calendar collections.
Operations
Getting Things Done
Design Thinking as a learning loop: an observation notebook, a focused problem statement, different idea sketches, a cardboard prototype and user-test notes. Feedback leads to new understanding.
Innovation
Design Thinking
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Purposedifferent
When a solution idea is already on the table, it checks how it is understood and evaluated. It looks for resonance, objections, and missing fit early in the conversation.With many open commitments and ideas in daily life, a reliable external storage system emerges. The method relieves the mind so priority and context don't have to compete in memory.For complex user problems with an uncertain cause, the method connects observation, interpretation, and experiment into a learning cycle. It keeps the focus on real needs and avoids premature solution language. This produces robust decisions for product and service.ARID examines how well developers can work with a technical design. It focuses on a part of the system that can still be revised, between the architecture overview and the detailed specification.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumHighMedium
Timedifferent
30-60 min je Interview1-2 h Setup, laufend1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional
Participantsdifferent
5-10 Interviews14-10Designers, developers as users, and facilitation
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Solution Feedback, Objection List, Validation NotesAction Lists, Project List, Review RoutineProblem Statement, Prototype, Test LearningsPrioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions
Tagsno overlap
ValidationInterviewsPrototype
ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution
InnovationPrototypeResearch
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
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